Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia () and Daniel I. Rees ()
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Joseph J. Sabia: San Diego State University
Daniel I. Rees: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

No 9144, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. We revisit this relationship using four additional waves of YRBS data (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013). Our results suggest that youths have become much less responsive to cigarette taxes since 2005. In fact, we find little evidence of a negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking when we restrict our attention to the period 2007-2013.

Keywords: youth smoking; tobacco control; cigarette tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H71 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2015-06
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Published - published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3 (1), 60-75

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